Quotes About Comedy

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I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.

Please use anger for something positive like hurting people that deserve it or writing jokes.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.

There's an argument that maybe [The Grinder] was better suited for streaming or cable. I don't know. I still like to think there's a place for smart, subversive, original comedies on networks.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

Why is comedy the only form of the arts where people think they have to agree with or approve the content? You don't walk through a museum with a towel and throw it over paintings you don't like.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

It was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art in the '90s, and they still have dinner three times a week.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny...I do not agree with that at all.

Burlesque is beautiful: It's art, it's fun, it's done with a lot of comedy - an awful lot of big wink-wink and nudge-nudge.